That’s how bonds work. Public entities don’t just have hundreds of millions of dollars lying around, so when they finance stadiums they do so by borrowing a money from the bank, and then paying it back over a 20 or 30 year timeframe. Just because the team skipped town during the repayment period doesn’t mean the city,…

“But rather than letting perfect be the enemy of good, let’s acknowledge that this is at least a step in the right direction.”

the public would at least get a slightly better deal in exchange for gifting hundreds of millions of dollars to billionaires. It’s not much, but it’s something

The screenwriters for Straight Outta Compton are white.

They don't have a lot of natural talent, but they're real students of the game.

They have no problem with authority.

They’re just really coachable.

Costco booze is made by respected boozemakers. Kirkland vodka, bourbon and scotch are made by Grey Goose, Jim Beam and Macallan.

It's kind of remarkable that voting is so burdensome — that you might physically have to stand in line for several hours to do it, after having registered several weeks beforehand — when you can now board an airplane or transfer $10,000 to your checking account from your mobile phone.

I haven't thought too much about how this would be executed — but just wanted to weigh in to endorse the concept of Bleacher Report as representing replacement level. The concept of replacement level should be carried much farther into other walks of life, in my view. For example, US Airways is a replacement-level…

I don't really have any regrets about the climate change chapter. It's not really disputing the consensus science. It does point out the consensus is narrower in scope than is sometimes portrayed — almost everyone agrees about the big, important stuff (global warming is real and manmade), but not so much about the…

So I'm just going to put you down for a shank.

Basically the only way that I excelled at sports as a youth was to exploit others' ineptitude, at the risk of being called a pussy. For instance, I had something like a .633 on-base percentage the last year I played baseball (8th, I think) because I knew that I couldn't hit, but I also knew that the pitchers couldn't…

I'd guess that the median Deadspin commenter is a 34-year-old white male with middle-to-high income but also above-average alcohol consumption. So we're taking about a remaining live expectancy of 47 years, give or take. My best guess is that you'll die in 2060, perhaps just a few days before Sasha Obama wins her…

I imagine Mitt Romney having a lot of food hang-ups, and while there are exceptions (e.g. vegetarians or people who really do have celiac disease), in general someone's annoyingness about food is pretty strongly correlated with their annoyingness overall.

The NWS/Hurricane Weather Research Model is pretty fucking sexy.

How far can you punt a football?

When we were negotiating with ESPN, they said 'yes' to an awful lot of things, in terms of our vision for the site. But the one thing they were firm about is that they had to buy the 538 brand name and the URL. The basic reason is that they're going to be investing lots of additional resources into 538, and no…

Who is the hottest statistical model you've ever met? Did you ever have sex with her/him?

Are you still allowed into Las Vegas casinos and sports gambling establishments?